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A S Byatt
The Virgin in the Garden
Category: Fiction | Published: 1978 | Review Added: 27-04-2014
Well-written, yet as dull as dishwater. Byatt's compulsion to describe every scene in undiscriminating detail, without any sense of poetry or purpose, slows the action to a snail's pace and had me closing the book a final time before 100 pages were up.